1990's Fashion | Michael Graves Toaster

Work of art

By: Michael Graves

Date: 1999

Source: Michael Graves Toaster. Designed for Target Stores and manufactured by Black & Decker. 1999. Photograph available online at www.michaelgraves.com (accessed April 29, 2003).

About the Designer: Michael Graves (1934–) was born in Indianapolis. He studied architecture at the University of Cincinnati and Harvard University. After a two-year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, he started his own architectural firm in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1964. Graves has distinguished himself in the world of architecture both as a designer and as a theorist, and he has received some of the profession's most prestigious awards. He is also professor emeritus at Princeton University, where he taught architecture for forty years.

Introduction

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Michael...